No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by Donald O. Bolander, 1979.
-- Booker T Washington, (Apr 5 1856-1915), US educator, social reformer; He established Tuskegee Institute, 1881 and wrote his autobiography Up From Slavery, 1901.